Statistics
Track your listening habits with FableFrog Premium's statistics dashboard, charts, genre breakdowns, fun facts, and session history.
Overview
Listening statistics are a Premium feature that gives you deep insight into your audiobook habits. FableFrog tracks your listening sessions locally and on your Audiobookshelf server, then presents the data through interactive charts, breakdowns, and personalized insights.
All statistics are derived from your actual listening data on the server. FableFrog doesn't fabricate or estimate numbers. If you listen on multiple devices, your stats reflect your combined activity across all of them.
Stats Dashboard
The stats dashboard is the main entry point, accessible from the Stats tab. It presents your listening time through interactive charts with multiple time scales.
Daily Chart
See how much you listened each day over the selected period. Each bar represents a single day's total listening time. This view is useful for spotting your daily listening rhythm. Do you listen more on weekdays or weekends?
Weekly Chart
Aggregated weekly totals give you a broader view of your listening trends. Weeks with higher bars indicate periods of heavier listening, making it easy to see the impact of vacations, commutes, or binge-worthy series.
Monthly Chart
The longest time scale, showing total listening time per month. Monthly charts are especially useful at year-end to see how your habits evolved over the course of the year.
Year Selector
Switch between years to compare your listening across different time periods. If you've been using Audiobookshelf for several years, this lets you see long-term trends in your audiobook consumption.
Day-of-Week Patterns
A breakdown showing which days of the week you listen most. This averages your listening across all weeks in the selected period, revealing consistent patterns. Maybe you always listen more on your Sunday morning runs or Wednesday commutes.
Library Completion
At the top of the stats dashboard, FableFrog shows your overall % Complete: your total listening progress across all books divided by the total duration of your library. Think of it as a library progress bar that grows as you work through your collection.
This number reflects actual listening progress for every book in your library, whether the book is finished, in progress, or untouched. It's a satisfying metric that gives you a single number for how much of your library you've consumed.
Insights
Beyond raw charts, FableFrog surfaces curated insights about your listening behavior.
Genre Breakdown
A visual breakdown of your listening time split across genres. See what percentage of your time goes to science fiction vs. mystery vs. nonfiction. Genres are pulled from your Audiobookshelf metadata, so accurate tagging on the server means more accurate insights here.
Top Series and Books
Your most-listened series and individual books, ranked by total listening time. This section highlights where you've invested the most hours, useful for spotting your true favorites versus books you only sampled.
Speed Savings
A cumulative tally of time you've "saved" by listening at speeds above 1.0x. If you typically listen at 1.5x, FableFrog calculates how many additional hours of content you've consumed compared to normal speed. For power listeners, this number can be surprisingly large.
Finished Books
A complete list of every audiobook you've finished, with the date you completed each one. Think of it as your audiobook trophy case, a growing record of everything you've read with your ears.
Fun Facts
FableFrog generates personalized fun facts about your listening habits. These are bite-sized insights designed to be surprising, motivating, or just interesting.
How Fun Facts Work
Fun facts are generated from your listening data and refreshed periodically. They analyze patterns across your sessions, genres, time-of-day preferences, and listening streaks to produce statements like "You've listened to more hours of fantasy this month than any previous month" or "Your longest single-day listening session was 4 hours and 12 minutes."
Weekly Fun Facts
Updated each week, these reflect your recent listening activity. They compare your current week to previous weeks, highlight changes in behavior, and call out notable achievements.
Monthly Fun Facts
A broader look at the past month's listening. Monthly fun facts tend to focus on trends and milestones: books finished, genres explored, total time invested.
Annual Fun Facts
Your year-in-review, available at any time (not just December). Annual fun facts summarize your entire year of listening: total hours, books completed, top genres, favorite narrators, and how your habits shifted across seasons.
Listening History
For users who want the raw data, FableFrog provides a complete log of every listening session.
Viewing Sessions
Each session entry shows the book title, start time, duration, and date. Sessions are recorded by your Audiobookshelf server, so they include activity from all clients, not just FableFrog.
Grouping Modes
You can view your session history in three modes:
- Flat: a chronological list of every session, newest first. Best for seeing exactly what you listened to and when.
- By day: sessions grouped under date headers. Useful for reviewing a specific day's listening activity.
- By book: sessions grouped by audiobook. This shows all sessions for each book together, making it easy to see your listening pattern for a specific title.
Session Details
Tap any session to see its full details, including the exact start and end timestamps, the chapter you were in, and the total duration. This level of detail is useful for tracking your habits or troubleshooting sync issues.